Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIForgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWithout seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
RAMANA MAHARSHIFor those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhy should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou are already That which you seek.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
RAMANA MAHARSHIConcentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOur identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHITransforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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